End Of Days 1999

Roger Ebert, At the Movies: Movies like this are particularly vulnerable to logic. Read more

Susan Stark, Detroit News: A depressingly shabby excuse for a movie. Read more

Philip Wuntch, Dallas Morning News: You'll walk out of End of Days wanting to pick a fight with Arnold Schwarzenegger. That's how bad this flick is. Read more

Michael Wilmington, Chicago Tribune: End of Days is an overblown, overspectacular, oversold movie without an original idea in its head. Read more

Bob Longino, Atlanta Journal-Constitution: Days is a movie full of punches but no spark. Read more

Eric Harrison, Los Angeles Times: The movie is as bloodless as a cyborg, and it feels as if it has been assembled according to diagrams supplied by someone who studied every successful sci-fi action thriller and then multiplied the findings by 10. Read more

Jeff Millar, Houston Chronicle: This is of interest only to the hard core of Schwarzenegger's army. Read more

Owen Gleiberman, Entertainment Weekly: The movie is frequently silly. Read more

Rick Groen, Globe and Mail: Displaying precisely the imagination that gave the world such epic achievements as The Star Chamber and The Relic, Hyams dusts off America's designated import and goes with Arnie Schwarzenegger his own self. Read more

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Janet Maslin, New York Times: As incoherent about its mysticism as it is about anything else. Read more

James Berardinelli, ReelViews: Schwarzenegger fans will probably be pleased, action lovers won't be bored, and the Catholic League will be angry. Everyone else will see End of Days for what it is: a deliciously bad motion picture. Read more

Andrew O'Hehir, Salon.com: End of Days keeps asking whether faith or force will save the human race, before hedging its bets and insisting on both. Neither will be enough to save relics like Hyams and Schwarzenegger from their long, affluent drift into irrelevance. Read more

Mick LaSalle, San Francisco Chronicle: There are moments in End of Days when Schwarzenegger seems to be gunning for an Oscar. Those moments play like comic relief. Read more

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Michael Atkinson, Village Voice: 85 percent explosions and editing idiocy (a window can't break without director Peter Hyams cutting between five different angles) and 15 percent Arnold trying to grow a third dimension. Read more